Lewis and Clark For Dummies

Part I: Lewis and Clark’s America.

Chapter 1: Reflecting on the Legacy: Lewis and Clark, Then and Now.

Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with the Expedition’s People and Places.

Chapter 3: Compelling Lewis and Clark West.

Part II: Into the Known: Monticello to Fort Mandan.

Chapter 4: Gambling Big — the Jeffersonian Way.

Chapter 5: Training an Explorer.

Chapter 6: Wintering at Camp Dubois.

Chapter 7: Traveling on the Big Muddy.

Chapter 8: Pitching American Trade to the Western Tribes.

Chapter 9: Enjoying a Cold Winter among Warm Mandans.

Part III: Into the Unknown: Fort Mandan to the Pacific.

Chapter 10: Journeying through Paradise and Purgatory on the Northern Plains.

Chapter 11: Searching for Snakes and Horses.

Chapter 12: Making a Cold, Hungry, and Dangerous Trek across the Mountains.

Chapter 13: Recording “Ocian In View! O! The Joy”.

Chapter 14: Coping on the Coast.

Part IV: Bound for Home.

Chapter 15: Stealing Away and Climbing Every Mountain (Twice).

Chapter 16: Exploring Far Horizons.

Chapter 17: Heading Home.

Chapter 18: Exploring the Fate and Lessons of the Corps of Discovery.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 19: Twenty Places Lewis and Clark Saw: Ten Changed; Ten Unchanged.

Chapter 20: The Ten Best Places to Visit on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.

Chapter 21: Ten Resources for Information about Lewis and Clark.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Tribal Homelands Visited by the Expedition.

Appendix B: Glossary.

Index.